“Competitors like DuckDuckGo, a small search engine that sells itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google, could never match Google’s tab with Apple. Apple now receives an estimated $8 billion to $12 billion in annual payments — up from $1 billion a year in 2014 — in exchange for building Google’s search engine into its products. It is probably the single biggest payment that Google makes to anyone…”
Source : Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet – The New York Times
“Today marks 20 years since the source code to OpenOffice was released. And today we say: LibreOffice is the future of OpenOffice. Let’s all get behind it! It’s great to have a rich and diverse set of free and open source software projects. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have benefited from the choice and customisation that they bring. But sometimes, users can lose out when they’re not aware of newer alternatives, or when one brand overshadows another.”
Source : Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice – The Document Foundation Blog
“NVIDIA Maxine is a fully accelerated platform SDK for developers of video conferencing services to build and deploy AI-powered features that use state-of-the-art models in their cloud. Video conferencing applications based on Maxine can reduce video bandwidth usage down to one-tenth of H.264 using AI video compression, dramatically reducing costs.”
Source : NVIDIA Maxine Video Conferencing Platform | NVIDIA Developer
“The U.S. Administration’s move to ban TikTok and WeChat for U.S. app stores is a direct attack on the Internet. It is an extreme measure that fundamentally undermines the foundation of the Internet. It’s especially a threat to the principles of openness and accessibility as well as its decentralized management. The Internet has no center. This type of top-down intervention is worrisome because – similar to efforts in China – it tries to impose a centralized management style that runs counter to how the Internet actually works.”
Trying a horrible experiment…
Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia
— Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri 🦀 (@bascule) September 19, 2020
“Twitter it was looking into why the neural network it uses to generate photo previews apparently chooses to show white people’s faces more frequently than Black faces. Several Twitter users demonstrated the issue over the weekend, posting examples of posts that had a Black person’s face and a white person’s face. Twitter’s preview showed the white faces more often.”
“The latest announcements place Amazon at the distant back of the pack. In 2019, the company revealed a then-ambitious plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and to use 100% renewable electricity by 2030. But the company’s vast logistics network is a significant hurdle not faced by its competitors: the company has purchased 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, but deploying them to the road will not be complete by 2030.”
Source : Facebook and Google announce plans to become carbon neutral | Environment | The Guardian
Pregnancy tests are 99% accurate in the lab, 75% accurate in the wild due to misreads- mistakes which are highly dependant on education and socioeconomic status. No, it is not stupid or wasteful to use a hardware interface to help women with this.https://t.co/BFbM36D8l1 https://t.co/rg4ncKLtke
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) September 4, 2020
“Cette affaire est, au final, une illustration parfaite des implications bien humaines des technologies et de leur utilisation dans notre vie. Ce qui ne signifie pas que l’on ne peut pas se poser des questions (elles aussi justifiées) sur la numérisation à outrance de notre quotidien, le recyclage des appareils électroniques, ou même sur le fait de devoir payer une machine pour faire respecter nos droits sexuels et reproductifs. Mais quand on a affaire à un appareil comme un test de grossesse — avec tous les enjeux politiques et sociétaux qu’implique le fait d’être enceinte ou de vouloir avorter — on ne peut pas se contenter d’agir comme si l’on démontait un bête PC.”
Source : La fausse arnaque des tests de grossesse électroniques
“Hurlements, pression insoutenables, injonction aux heures supplémentaires, impossibilité de se plaindre auprès de la RH ou des représentants du CSE… La direction du studio est pointée du doigt par les accusations de nombreux employés et anciens employés avec qui Numerama s’est entretenu.”
“Projects on Scratch contains “a great deal of humiliating, fake, and libelous content about China,” including placing Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in a dropdown list of “countries”, a state-run news outlet reported on August 21. The article added that “any service distributing information in China” must comply with local regulations, and Scratch’s website and user forum had been shut down in the country.”
Source : China bans Scratch, MIT’s programming language for kids | TechCrunch
“C’est loin d’être une première pour Electronic Arts. Selon un article du Wall Street Journal paru le 26 juillet, des expérimentations avaient déjà été effectuées dans le jeu vidéo UFC 3, en partenariat avec WarnerMedia. Lors de notre test de Need for Speed Heat, on a déploré l’intégration d’une publicité aux couleurs du service EA Access, lorsque l’on met le jeu en pause. On se souvient aussi qu’Electronic Arts avait été pointé du doigt à cause des microtransactions honteuses de Star Wars Battlefront 2. À force de chercher à gagner de l’argent par tous les moyens, l’entreprise se retrouve très souvent dans le viseur des critiques.”
Source : Electronic Arts a osé intégrer une publicité dans un jeu à 60 euros
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